The Mike New Technics Bearing

[Mike_New]

Mike New, billionaire and conqueror of the hifi world

(to be)

I'm not so sure about the billionaire bit all I need is a further couple of million buyers, but I know I can make it.

[MikeMusic]

I'm not so sure about the billionaire bit all I need is a further couple of million buyers, but I know I can make it.

You just never know
I picked up talk yesterday at my place was how much vinyl is coming back.
Sales of all sorts to do with vinyl could take off.
Let's hope so

[MCRU]

You just never know
I picked up talk yesterday at my place was how much vinyl is coming back.
Sales of all sorts to do with vinyl could take off.
Let's hope so

I am seeing a steady increase in vinyl related sales from busy to really busy! As an example the knosti rcm, I sold 38 in december, I have to assume these are new vinyl collectors which is great for vinyl in general.

The only thing I don't like is all the punters phoning me who have bought Rega or Project TT's!!!!

At least I have Nick to help these punters get a better sound from their decks with his linear PSU's!!!

[MikeMusic]

I am seeing a steady increase in vinyl related sales from busy to really busy! As an example the knosti rcm, I sold 38 in december, I have to assume these are new vinyl collectors which is great for vinyl in general.

Oh, so they are *using* them as well as buying !
I imagined it was a lot of talk and an expensive ornament for most

[Marco]

The only thing I don't like is all the punters phoning me who have bought Rega or Project TT's!!!!

Unfortunately, the rubber-band brainwash runs deep…..

At least I have Nick to help these punters get a better sound from their decks with his linear PSU's!!!

Not even ‘magic electricity’ could save them!

Marco.

[Marco]

I'm not so sure about the billionaire bit all I need is a further couple of million buyers, but I know I can make it.

Mike, what do you make of these comments from the magazine review, in relation to flutter?

Measured Performance showed wow and flutter rose slightly from 0.06% to 0.1%. Their spectrum analyser showed a very low value of basic rate wow at 0.55% (33rpm), as usual with the Technics, but a flutter peak at 7hz that I have not seen before. It continued to say that in absolute terms the degradation is not large and I suspect subjectively of little consequence.

Have you measured anything like that yourself? What do you think would cause the supposed increase in flutter? If it exists, it certainly isn’t audible on my T/T… You have to wonder, too, if the bearing was fitted 100% correctly, and if everything else on the turntable they were using was functioning optimally.

Marco.

[Macca]

Mike, what do you make of these comments from the magazine review, in relation to flutter?



Have you measured anything like that yourself? .

You may recall much earlier in this thread several of us asked for measurements comparing the upgrade bearing to the stock and the response was that none had been done.

[prestonchipfryer]

Improves sound is one of the comments made in the February 2015 edition. Hi-Fi World article. It certainly does, and then some IME. Perhaps Noel Keywood could review another well known bearing produced in the UK. Then compare them. Too much to hope for? Probably

[Marco]

Lol - indeed… I fear that NK and DC have too much of a love affair going on for that to happen!

Marco.

[Marco]

You may recall much earlier in this thread several of us asked for measurements comparing the upgrade bearing to the stock and the response was that none had been done.

No worries. I just wondered what mechanism might be perceived for causing the apparent increase in flutter… I still need to buy the mag, but for those who’ve read it, does it say what PSU was used on the Techy for the review?

If it was a Timestep one, those can be prone to causing (even audible) wow, which is something I noticed immediately when comparing mine (when I had one) against a Paul Hynes SR3 that Hugo (Shuggie) was using at the time.

Marco.